Heroin was originally marketed as a children's cough syrup.
Why it is true
In the late nineteenth century, the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold the drug as a non-addictive cough suppressant and painkiller for children, before its devastating effects were understood.
Source: Pharmaceutical History
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